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diabetes: Blood and other measurements in diabetics

Description

The diabetes data 442 observations. The diabetes data structure is a list with three elements, which are listed below. This is the data used in Efron et al. (2002).

Format

The list contains the following columns:

x

a matrix with 10 columns

y

a numeric vector

x2

a matrix with 64 columns

Source

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/LARS/LeastAngle_2002.ps

Details

The x matrix has been standardized to have unit L2 norm in each column and zero mean. The matrix x2 consists of x plus certain interactions.

References

Efron, Hastie, Johnstone and Tibshirani (2003) "Least Angle Regression" (with discussion) Annals of Statistics

LARS Package: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lars/index.html.